Big Idea Graphic Organizer

Added value through focused

material

Chris Rodkey

www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/toolbigidea.pdf

www.ccbd.net/documents/bb/BB16(3)%20Sundeen.pdf

Student Service Learning

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/05/AR2010100502816.html

Engaging students in meaningful

learning

Montgomery County Public Schools SSL

Guide:

www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/

ssl/Chris Rodkey

Metacognition / Reflection

http://ayjfblduzs.ru/people/?ZmxvcmlkYWNhcmRlYWxlcnMub3Jn

An essay on metacognition:http://gse.buffalo.edu/fas/shuell/cep564/metacog.htm

http://academic.pgcc.edu/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/metacognition.htm

METACOGNITION: Study Strategies, Monitoring, and Motivation:

Wikipedia

Marc Pirner

Field Trips

Marc Pirner

List of field trips by subject, age, and park:

http://www.metroparks.org/GetOutside/EducationalFieldTrips.aspx

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2151-6952.1997.tb01304.x/abstract

School Field Trips: Assessing Their Long-Term Impact:

http://www2.counton2.com/news/2010/nov/12/4/living-history-field-trip-day-charleston-ar-1081828/

Debates and Role Plays

http://globalsolutions.org/blog/2010/05/all-cool-kids-do-model-un

Marc Pirner

National model United Nations:http://www.nmun.org/

Role Playing in Education:http://www.blatner.com/adam/pdntbk/rlplayedu.htm

Songs and Video Clips

www.vilarpac.org/vpac/calendar.aspx?mode=detail&eventId=vpac_w_0910_62/sem-map.htm

Chris Rodkey

tv.gawker.com/

Youtube.com

The Dailey Show

The Colbert Report

The Simpsons

South Park

Educational Video Clip Forum: http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?t=6666

Power Point Presentations

Notes with easy differentiation

potential

Chris Rodkey

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/arbach/arbach.html

www.teach-nology.com

Reading Road Maps

Scaffold student reading

assignments

http://student.wartburg.edu/becker/ReadingRoadMap%2010-15-06.ppt

Chris Rodkey

gse.gmu.edu/assets/docs/lmtip/vol2/K.McGee.doc

KWHLS Chart Accesses prior

knowledge

Prompts HOTS

Stimulates anticipation

Brennan Davis

www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1kwlh.htm

Discussion Web

Provides structure that enables student to meaningful interact with materials

Students analyzes different perspectives on an issue

Students use reasoning skills to draw conclusions

http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/discussion_webs.pdf

Brennan Davis

Cause & Effect

Louis Sheppard

How to Use Cause & Effect- http://urbanext.illinois.edu/ce/strat130.html

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cause-and-effect

Cause & Effect: Establishing a relationship between an action/event and its results – ‘the ripple affect’

http://www.bts-foundation.org

http://www.personalbrandingblog.com/personal-branding-interview-jennifer-aaker-and-andy-smith/

Venn Diagram

http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/resources/elementary/3history.htmtp://ayjfblduzs.ru/people/?ZmxvcmlkYWNhcmRlYWxlcnMub3Jn

Simple & Advanced:http://www.purplemath.com/modules/venndiag.htm

http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=venn%20diagram

Venn Diagram: Logically comparing and contrasting themes and vocabulary

Louis Sheppard

Semantic Mapping

http://www.bucks.edu/~specpop/sem-map.htm

FREE SEMATIC MAP TEMPLATES:

http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/inspiration_templates/

Marc Pirner

Different Perspectives

http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/inform5.html

Social Studies Perspectives:

http://www.hisd.k12.mi.us/gened/ssperspect.html

Marc Pirner

Word Bank

http://www.toolsforeducators.com/wordbank/

Louis Sheppard

Possibilities:http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/lists/a/words.php?f=bank_1

Word Bank: Categorized vocabulary to aid and stimulate the student

Browsealoud.com

http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/accessibility.htm

Designed to Assist with Reading Online-(This Website Highlights, Reads Aloud, & Offers Additional Links)http://www.browsealoud.com/page.asp?pg_id=80094&tile=USA

Sites that Browsealoud.com offers include…http://americanhistory.si.edu/http://nmaahc.si.edu/http://americanart.si.edu/http://www.smithsonian.org/

Louis Sheppard

http://www.cua.edu/speech-enabled.cfm

Highlighter and Sticky Notes

http://www.lexdis.org.uk/strategy/91

Tagging and/or marking certain selections of text as important

The Importance of these Strategies: http://www.readingquest.org/strat/underline.html

Louis Sheppard

http://www.clipartof.com/details/clipart/13242.html

Kidspiration Graphic Organizer

http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/inspirationprojects.cfm

Brennan Davis

Students build conceptual and thinking skills through visual aids

Intended for elementary students

Has applicability for older students with cognitive disabilities

Page Turner

http://www.pageflip.com/

Brennan Davis

Designed for people hand disabilities

Allows equal access to text-based materials.

Scribe/Alpha Smart

http://www.neo-direct.com/intro.aspx

Brennan Davis

Excellent resource for students suffering from dysgraphia or other LD’s associated with writing.

Use of scribe can benefit both note taker and the person for whom notes are taken